"Generation", the intro track to REGENERATION, is a smooth and jazzy anthem for our current and future youth, challenging them and starting a conversation with them about all the important problems of our time. Young Haiti comes through with an old-school jazzy beat, in which The Wiz smoothly makes his case for "REGENERATION" - this is a song - and album which takes a closer look at the human condition - and sets the stage for the rest of the records to follow.
lyrics
[Hook x2]
And let me speak to...MY generation
It’s time for conversation
This ain’t a proclamation
But let’s free our minds, emancipation
I’m talking to my generation
And the expectations
Of the hopes and the fears
and the dreams and the tears
that’s here from all the years, so come on!!
[Verse 1]
Let me cut to the chase no need for introduction
"The Wiz" if ya wonderin’, more lines than a school luncheon
And my function is to bring em to you straight or parallel
Thru written parables, otherwise known as spittin real
Or knowledge, from the most high I drop it
And when it crashes down it reaches the fiber optics
It’s all logic, my sound doctrine is super sonic
So when it enters your ears, you already done forgot it
But your soul listens, this generation, what’s the sole mission
Are we doomed to S-I-N and end our lives wishing
Hoping, fighting and coping with what we’re missing
If I could have started over, woulda been a better Christian
Better man, a better father, better mother, better daughter
Or a better son and cross those lines like the Holy One
Or a better son....and cross those lines like the Holy One...
[Hook]
[Verse 2]
I said a generation, meaning creation from something prior
Like the British Empire, we carry on and take it higher
The fire, that fuels our cypher lasts a lifetime
And no air/heir can force the end of our royal bloodline
That's on God/en guarde, like what you say before a fencing
My opposition to this engagement is an extension
Of my rejection of the evil dogmas of the world
Lets make it a better place for all these boys and girls
Unfurl, these differences and add some solidarity
For clarity, multiply the love for prosperity
Divide the envy by charity and drop the heresy
Don’t be a Pharisee, instead sail on the fairer sea
But where that be you say, I see it’s inside us
The spirit of truth, with proper insight to guide us
Unite us, the sky is the limit and the limit is a lie
Go high my generation is-real like 12 tribes, WHAT
[Hook]
[Outro]
MY
GEN-ER-A-TION (x3)
REGENERATION
credits
from REGENERATION,
released August 12, 2016
The Wiz - primary artist
CHAOS Choir (Jov, EJA, MYA) - background vocals
Young Haiti - producer
Audio Mixing Mastering LLC - mixing, mastering
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